These days, there are two sorts of Disney cartoons: the fancy computer-generated ones, à la Toy Story and Monsters Inc, with a slick, metallic look and firecracker repartee; and the ones that go for a more traditional paintbox style, and a more classical storytelling approach. Treasure Planet falls squarely into the latter category: a sci-fi yarn adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate adventure, Treasure Island, awash with galleon-shaped space ships, cyborg pirates, and bug-eyed aliens manning the yardarms.

Treasure Planet encountered fairly stiff resistance on its US release. Whether or not it heralds the death of old-fashioned animation is open to debate, but it's crafted with all the care and imagination you would expect. However - like Titan AE, another space epic - it's aimed at the very age-group who don't want to be reminded they ever liked cartoons: teenage boys. Jim Hawkins as a surly skate-punk is a novel creation (along with a couple of cod-thrash songs by Goo Goo Doll John Rzeznik) but without the pizzazz of computer animation you can see how it will struggle to find its target audience.